This would put companies like Audm out of business, but it seems like they already only employ one voice actor for most gigs (ya gotta respect how much she gets done though!). I wish there was more work for professional voice actors, audiobooks done by the likes of Roy Dotrice are an absolutely fantastic ride
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#32This would put companies like Audm out of business, but it seems like they already only employ one voice actor for most gigs (ya gotta respect how much she gets done though!). I wish there was more work for professional voice actors, audiobooks done by the likes of Roy Dotrice are an absolutely fantastic ride
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#33Imagine if in-game voice chat automatically converts player speech into the voice of the character they're playing -- this would resolve a lot of the gender-based harassment problems arising from competitive games requiring vocal communication, since now _everyone's_ default is hiding the actual player's voice, contrasting the "just use a voice changer if you're a girl playing" suggestion which themselves draws atten…
I’m looking forward to NPCs having dynamic responses with real voices Doesn't have to be prerecorded, just trained
Games could have more than three dialogue options again!
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#34Less than a week ago, I said AI would upend the market for voice actors within the next couple of years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271948
Not only voice actors, include radio hosts, documentary/news content, any voice over for anything, as well as imitation of familiar voices.
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#35I’ve been reading up on this the last couple of days because…oh, look, squirrel!
This seems to me where The Big Guys are going to dominate because it comes down to a big data problem. For example, whisper (admittedly speech to text) was trained on 480,000 hours of speech data scraped from the web. The next ‘contender’ used something like 48,000 hours. Who can compete with that who doesn’t own a whole cloud?
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#36I think a great use case for this technology could be to preserve dying languages. I'm sure a lot of work has already gone into preserving the written form of these languages, but training models on data sets of native speakers could be a way to preserve pronunciation.
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#37Less than a week ago, I said AI would upend the market for voice actors within the next couple of years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271948
Not only voice actors, include radio hosts, documentary/news content, any voice over for anything, as well as imitation of familiar voices.
This will really open pandoras box for scammers and other bad actors. Grandma won't know she's speaking with an AI.
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#38RIP Auto-Tune
If the music that my grocery store foists upon me is anything to go by then I say it can't come soon enough
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#39Still sounds pretty fake to me. There’s a hurriedness to the speech and a monotonic uniformity in enunciation that is uncannily machine. Good to know that voice actors will have jobs for a while longer…
> Good to know that voice actors will have jobs for a while longer…
They don’t have to work anymore, just sell their voice and sit at home collecting royalty payments is the future according the TFA.
And they’ve been making progress on the roboticness with every new model that comes out. Just a matter of time (and data) for the AIs to figure out how words string together naturally.
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#40Nice timing as I'm looking for a way to replace espeak. Are there any pretraines text-to-speech models available? Or, some dataset that could be use to train a model?